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Global AI Ethics Documents: What They Reveal About Motivations, Practices, and Policies
In recent years, numerous organizations worldwide have produced normative documents identifying potential benefits, harms, and associated...
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Genome Editing and Responsible Innovation, Can They Be Reconciled?
Genome editing is revolutionising the field of genetics, which includes novel applications to food animals. Responsible research and innovation (RRI)...
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Adaptationism and the Author
Adaptationism endorses the gene as the primary locus of change (leading to new structures in evolution). This functionalist position is consistent...
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Born Well: Prenatal Genetics and the Future of Having Children
This book brings together an international collection of experts in reproductive ethics, law, disability studies, and medicine to explore the...
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Emerging Reproductive Technologies: Regulating Into the Void
This chapter offers an overview of the American legal landscape surrounding assisted reproductive technologies (ART). The three basic sources of law...
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Emerging sociotechnical imaginaries for gene edited crops for foods in the United States: implications for governance
Gene editing techniques, such as CRISPR, are being heralded as powerful new tools for delivering agricultural products and foods with a variety of...
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Experts’ moral views on gene drive technologies: a qualitative interview study
BackgroundGene drive technologies (GDTs) promote the rapid spread of a particular genetic element within a population of non-human organisms....
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A critical view on using “life not worth living” in the bioethics of assisted reproduction
This paper critically engages with how life not worth living (LNWL) and cognate concepts are used in the field of beginning-of-life bioethics as the...
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Genetic Modification (GMOs), General
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are those whose genetic material has been altered via genetic engineering such as molecular cloning,...
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NGO perspectives on the social and ethical dimensions of plant genome-editing
Plant genome editing has the potential to become another chapter in the intractable debate that has dogged agricultural biotechnology. In 2016, 107...
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Biolaw
Biolaw refers to legislation concerning the development and use of biotechnologies throughout the entire process. This includes everything from...
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Good Reasons to Avoid Germline Intervention: A Response to Sahotra Sarkar
This essay takes issue with the statement by the biologist and philosopher Sahotra Sarkar in his recent book Cut-and-Paste Genetics: A CRISPR...
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Ethical issues in human germline gene editing: a perspective from China
The ethical issues associated with germline gene modification and embryo research are some of the most contentious in current international science...
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Back to Basics: Application of the Principles of Bioethics to Heritable Genome Interventions
Prior to their announcement of the birth of gene-edited twins in China, Dr. He Jiankui and colleagues published a set of draft ethical principles for...
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The gene-editing of super-ego
New emerging biotechnologies, such as gene editing, vastly extend our ability to alter the human being. This comes together with strong aspirations...
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CRISPR-Cas9 and He Jiankui's Case: an Islamic Bioethics Review using Maqasid al-Shari'a and Qawaid Fighiyyah
The discovery of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the CRISPR-mediated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9) immediately...
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The Good and the Goal of Pre-conception and Pre-natal Genetic Testing from a Catholic Perspective
In the United States in particular, one institution that consistently resisted the social momentum to implement eugenic public policies was the...